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My experience on the Summer Internship Programme in MHCLG 

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Megan Edwards, intern in Local Digital, MHCLG

A career in MHCLG Digital is open to everyone regardless of their background. The Civil Service Summer Internship Programme fosters an inclusive environment and welcomes individuals from all academic paths, giving them a chance to experience working in the Civil Service. In this post Megan, healthcare student and summer intern in MHCLG, shares her experience within the Local Digital team.

Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge 

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Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider sector, due to a shortage of skills and high demand. In this blog post, we share how MHCLG Digital has taken innovative steps and applied digital, user-centred approaches to overcome the challenges associated with digital and data resourcing.

Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems

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a laptop screen showing the 'apply for funding' page on gov.uk

As government programmes continue to tackle many complex challenges, there is an opportunity to evolve our delivery approaches to ensure they are optimally structured to deal with complexity. This post discusses the idea of ‘adaptive funding’, influenced by agile methodologies.

From Homes for Ukraine to community building: my journey as a business analyst Fast Streamer

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An iPad screen showing a GOV.UK page titled 'Homes for Ukraine: record your interest'

In this blog post, Luke Radford, Business Analyst and Fast Streamer turns the spotlight on our growing business analysis and performance analysis community of practice, and shares his experience of working on the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.

Delivering at pace: introducing Common Tools as a Service

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A card that says 'Common tools as a service (CTaaS)'

For the past few months, an MHCLG Digital team has been working on a new initiative called Common Tools as a Service (CTaaS), which is set to become an expanding area of MHCLG Digital. This blog talks about the progress and work that has emerged from MHCLG Digital’s previous experiences and lessons learned in building services at pace and scale.

Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process

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a residential area seen from above

Planning documents often contain vast amounts of valuable information, but accessing and using this data can be challenging. Artificial intelligence offers a potentially promising solution to extract key information and insights, and this post talks about how the Digital Planning Programme is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process.

Unlocking collaboration: new ways of working in our delivery community of practice

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post it notes on a table, with some hands visible, arranging them

In this blog post, Dave O'Gorman, Head of Delivery, sheds light on an innovative approach to asynchronous working in the department's delivery community of practice, and illustrates how they’ve used it to improve their community onboarding process. 

Applying user ecosystem thinking in the Funding Service

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The 'Rethinking users' book on a table, with some post-it notes next to it

In this post, a policy lead and a user researcher discuss the concept of user ecosystem thinking and how it can be applied by designers in their day-to-day work. This concept and the practical activities we discuss in this post are derived from the book ‘Rethinking Users: A Design Guide to User Ecosystem Thinking’.